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Epidemiology of resistance to antibiotics links between animals and humans.
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Since the EU ban of avoparcin, a significant decrease has been observed in several European countries in the prevalence of vancomycin resistant enterococci in meat (products), in faecal samples of food animals and healthy humans, which underlines the role of antimicrobial usage in food animals in the selection of bacterial resistance and the transport of these resistances via the food chain to humans.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.The article was published on 2000-05-01. It has received 1056 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Antibiotic resistance & Avoparcin.read more
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Probiotics in aquaculture: The need, principles and mechanisms of action and screening processes
TL;DR: This review provides a comprehensive summary of probiotics in aquaculture with special reference to mollusc culture.
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Enterococci from foods
TL;DR: Enterococci are low grade pathogens but their intrinsic resistance to many antibiotics and their acquisition of resistance to the few antibiotics available for treatment in clinical therapy have led to difficulties and a search for new drugs and therapeutic options.
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Industrial Food Animal Production, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Human Health
TL;DR: This review focuses on agricultural antimicrobial drug use as a major driver of antimicrobial resistance worldwide for four reasons: It is the largest use of antimicrobials worldwide; much of the use in agriculture results in subtherapeutic exposures of bacteria; drugs of every important clinical class are utilized in agriculture; and human populations are exposed to antimicrobial-resistant pathogens via consumption of animal products as well as through widespread release into the environment.
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Antimicrobial Resistance: A Global Emerging Threat to Public Health Systems
TL;DR: An extensive overview of the epidemiology of AMR is presented, with a focus on the link between food producing-animals and humans and on the legal framework and policies currently implemented at the EU level and globally.
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Evidence for extensive resistance gene transfer among Bacteroides spp. and among Bacteroides and other genera in the human colon.
TL;DR: It is shown that conjugal gene transfer has made a major contribution to increased antibiotic resistance in Bacteroides species, a numerically predominant group of human colonic bacteria, and the hypothesis that extensive gene transfer occurs among bacteria in the human colon, both within the genus Bactoides and among Bactoeides species and gram-positive bacteria.
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Quinolone resistance in campylobacter isolated from man and poultry following the introduction of fluoroquinolones in veterinary medicine
Hubert P. Endtz,Gijs J. Ruijs,Bert van Klingeren,Wim H. Jansen,Tanny van der Reyden,R. Peter Mouton +5 more
TL;DR: The increase of quinolone resistance coincides with the increasing use of fluoroquinolones in human and veterinary medicine and suggests that the resistance observed is mainly due to the use of enrofloxacin in the poultry industry.
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An outbreak of multidrug-resistant, quinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype typhimurium DT104
Kåre Mølbak,Dorte Lau Baggesen,Frank Møller Aarestrup,Jens Munk Ebbesen,Jørgen Engberg,Kai Frydendahl,Peter Gerner-Smidt,Andreas Petersen,Henrik Caspar Wegener +8 more
TL;DR: The investigation of an outbreak of DT104 documented the spread of quinolone-resistant bacteria from food animals to humans; this spread was associated with infections that were difficult to treat.
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Farm animals as a putative reservoir for vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infection in man
TL;DR: The emergence of VRE in hospital patients may reflect selection of these organisms in the hospital environment by antibiotic usage from which nosocomial spread might occur, and suggests that animals may serve as a reservoir of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), which may enter the human food chain.
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Avoparcin used as a growth promoter is associated with the occurrence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium on Danish poultry and pig farms
TL;DR: The similar findings in the two studies provide evidence in favour of a causal association between the use of avoparcin and the occurrence of VREF on farms, and suggest that food animals constitute a potential reservoir of infection for VREF in humans.
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